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Define BIM and what are the major advantages and disadvantages of BIM (Revit) to CAD?

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Question added by Jaizen Hintay , MEP Design Engineer & CAD/BIM Designer , Shankland Cox LTD
Date Posted: 2017/10/19
Sana Kareem
by Sana Kareem , Intern , Qatar design consortium

Building Information and Modeling is mainly used to provide 3D or 4D representation.

BIM is defined as Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of a facility

Advantage and Disadvantage of BIM over CAD 

CAD usvally deals with plan section and elevation which is 2 dimentional and 3 dimentional (width, height and depth).

where as BIM deals with providing the particular information in 3 dimentional (width, height and depth), 4 dimentional (cost), 5 dimetional (time )

 

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